He’s been struggling as of late. Hopefully, it’s just a stretch of bad performances that every young pitcher goes through before they figure it out.

Laz

AA is a big jump for non-elite prospects. He hasn’t been awful, just there are things that he still needs to work on.

The Real Greg

While DBJ has gone back into suck mode, I’m starting to be intrigued by Peter O’Brien.

He should move up to A+ ball and maybe even AA by the end of this year.

Preston

Eh, he’s old for the level and not a catcher. Not all that exciting.

Nick

wrong and very wrong. He’s one to definitely keep an eye on.

Preston

He’s about to turn 23 and he’s at low A, that’s old for the level. That’s not a disputable fact. So you should be taking his numbers with a grain of salt. I guess whether or not he sticks at C is a matter of opinion. But he hasn’t been very good back there so far and he caught all through college so it’s not like he’s inexperienced back there, just not good.

Preston

When you consider the age difference and the fact that their MLB position is 1B Greg Bird could actually be the better hitter. He’ll likely grow in to more power, is young enough to think he could still improve his contact rate and cut down on K’s and he walks at a crazy high rate.

yankeepankee

Frail arms all over the place.
More surgery this year (Encinas, Ty Hensley..).
Can’t even produce a decent backup shortstop to hold the fort until Jeter is ready.
Once again, no LOOGY lefty reliever from the system.
Even Montgomery and Pinder regressing.
Cashman gets poor marks with his drafting and stocking of the farm.
And he got schooled by Rangers (Profar, etc..), Dodgers (Puig, Jin-Ryu), A’s (Cespedes) with international free agents.
Bad job Cashman.

Pat D

Wah wah.

Another one track mind.

Just to let you know, as an FYI, saying the same thing over and over again in multiple threads over multiple days and weeks will cause people to not listen to you.

Frank

Not sure how anyone can disagree about the fact that the Yankees have been awful in the recent international market. How different would this team be with any of soler, cespedes, puig, or profar. You can’t win them all…but one out of 4 would be nice. Cashman and Hal are hamstrung on the ML level bc of the stupidity of signing Arod long term but that should be more of a reason to be wild spenders in the market not subject to IFA rules (Cuba). This organization is not set up for long term success at this point. Solid draft this week but lots of misses that could be really helping over the last few years. But thank god they signed Ichiro…I mean where would we be without him?

Need Pitching & Hitting (but mostly hitting)

A little early to use Soler as an example, especially considering the size of the contract and that he’s still in A ball.
Any of the others would be mighty useful right now though.

Pat D

I don’t necessarily disagree, it’s just that this is at least the second time he’s made, more or less, this exact same comment.

If there’s one thing no one on this board should aspire to be it’s a stuart clone.

Robinson Tilapia

Still whining. How different would any team be without a good player currently not on the team?

yankeepankee

Thanks for the advice.
But I’ll take my chances.
Too much blind optimism and Cashman pom pom waving here. Over and over again.
Topic needs to be addressed. Over and over again.

Pat D

Well at least you listened.

Robinson Tilapia

Did they call you back when you submitted your résumé?

Dante’s Inferno

This.

Also, Puig has had a great start, no doubt, but I think we should maybe require more than 5 games of pro ball and half a year in the minors before we declare him a legit stud. Cespedes is batting int he mid-.250’s with power, and anyone with eyes should be able to tell you the yankees lack contact ability before they lack power (at least with a full lineup). Profar is hard to argue about, but he was being looked at mostly as a pitcher when he was on the market. The rangers gave him a shot to stay, something most GM’s, including Cashman would not have. hard to fault him for the Ranger’s gamble paying off. this isn’t to say he would not have helped, but it’s not like he was a no brainer signing. And I’m not going to touch Soler. To have him in that conversation is just asinine. He’s in A ball.

Mr Roth

Great job on your sentence structure.

Need Pitching & Hitting (but mostly hitting)

No way a team can win without a homegrown LOOGY.
Major fail on Cashman’s part.

yankeepankee

Remember that when Logan’s arm falls off from being the only lefty in the pen. He had arm trouble last year too.
And are we still paying Marte and Feliciano?
Gave them big bucks because Cashy came up empty again with a farm lefty specialist. Again and again.

Need Pitching & Hitting (but mostly hitting)

Of all the things to complain about regarding the current state of the Yankees, not having a homegrown LOOGY is about #14,768,321.
No they aren’t paying Marte and Feliciano anymore.
I would hope they have no focus on developing lefty specialists.

forensic

Out of curiosity, What’s #14,768,322 on the list of things to complain about?

Need Pitching & Hitting (but mostly hitting)

Not having a catcher in the system with 50 SB/yr potential.

Cashman failed yet again.

forensic

Sweet, thanks! Just wanted to be prepared.

http://www.riveraveblues.com Mike Axisa

Plus they have Nuno. wtf?

Need Pitching & Hitting (but mostly hitting)

yeah, that too.

vicki

the money it took to sign the likes of cespedes, puig and ryu would not be managed by cashman’s discretion.

http://riverblues renzostew

I agree with everything you said about the minor league system and the international players.Cashman has a terrible team in picking and devolopement of young players.Make him a vice-president and clean out the system

jairo heredia has shoulder problems and i am pretty sure Brooks was released last year.

nycsportzfan

Thanks man. So Heredia is still part of yanks org? Gavin Brooks was sensational that 1st yr in Short season ball and then just dissapeared off the map. So you say we released em? Was it because he could not get healthy?

Also is Rob Segedin out for the yr? He was having a trmendous season!

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